But in Gambia, anti-gay rhetoric has escalated despite a U.S.
In Uganda, a court eventually invalidated an anti-gay law the U.S. advocacy and progress, and in Latin America, those changes have been accompanied by increasing violence against LGBT people. Yet even in countries where legal protections have improved, like Brazil and Argentina, it’s difficult to draw a straight line between U.S. That means a clinic, food program or shelter can’t refuse services to a gay or transgender person. Agency for International Development contracts from going to groups that discriminate in delivery of services.
In its latest push to use dollars as leverage, Rice announced in a speech Wednesday that the U.S. She argued that despite a cascade of pressing global crises, the White House had tried to “deal with the urgent and deal with the important, and even if the important is, some might say, optional, it’s important.” In an Associated Press interview, Rice said both the U.N. “I walked into a very backward environment in 2009,” said Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and former U.N.
